Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — GORE’S DEBAUCH ENDS IN DEATH [ARTICLE]

GORE’S DEBAUCH ENDS IN DEATH

The Thayer Merchant Suffering from Delirium Tremens Dies at Makeever Hotel. Lewis P. Gore, “a good man when sober,” as his acquaintances from Thayer say, died at 3 o’clock on Tuesday morning at the Makeever Hotel, following an epileptic fit induced by delirium tremens, which had con trolled him for about forty eight hours. On last Friday Gore, under the influence of liquor, struck his wife, formerly Miss Mary Tanner, in the face and knocked her down. She" had him arrested and Justice of the Peace Boswinkle, of Thaypr, bound him over to the circuit court in the sum of SSOO, which he could not give, and Boswinkle committed him to jail in Rensselaer, but he did not conform to the law requiring that the commitment papers be stamped with the seal of the Justice and Sheriff O’Connor would not receive him. He was in charge of M. G. Richards, a young barber who acts as deputy sheriff in the upper end of Newton county, and Richards took him to the Makeeyer hotel, Vhere he soon developed a pronounced case of tremens. Mr. Richards procured medical aid and Monday Gore seemed somewhat improved but was very sick and weak. -'jMrs. Gore and her brother Ed Tanner camfe down on the 10:55 train Monday and Mr. Tanner signed Gore’s bail bond, but he was too weak to leave the hotel. He became violent with the tre-

mens agaiir at about 4 o’clock and Richards was kept busy for several hours. Finally at about 10 o’clock he suffered an apoplectic stroke, and following the cerebral hemorrhage he lapsed into unconsciousness and the end came at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning. His wife was present when he died having been called in from - the home of her brother, Ed Tanner, in Barkley tp., at midnight. The funeral, was held Thursday at 1:30 o’clock at the M. E. church. Burial was made in Weston cemetery in Rensselaer. Mr. Gore was a widower when he married his present wife and leaves a son, Lewis Gore, 32 years of age, at Concordia, Kans. There is also one child, a little daughter 5 years of age, by the surviving wife.